First of all, year, month and date are easy in Mandarin Chinese

To describe year, month and date in Chinese, we first need to learn 3 words as follows:

Year 年 niánMonth 月 yuèDate 号 hào

Conjugation of Year, Month and Date in Chinese

Different from the conjugation of weekdays in Chinese which puts 星期(xīng qī ) in front the numbers, years, months and dates are all conjugated by adding the measure words, 年(nián ), 月(yuè) and 号（hào）at the end.

How to say Years in Chinese

In Chinese, one needs to read the digits of the year and 年(nián) which indicates the year. For example,